Setup and building

Prerequisites

Dependency	Description
Git	The source code of Pulsar is hosted on GitHub as a git repository. To work with the git repository, please install git.
JDK	The source code of Pulsar is primarily written in Java. Therefore, you need a working Java Development Kit (JDK) to build it. Pulsar requires JDK 17 to build.
Maven	The source code of Pulsar is managed by Apache Maven The required Maven version is 3.6.1+.
Zip	The build process requires Zip as a utility tool.

note

On Windows, replace ./mvnw with mvnw.cmd in the commands below.

Clone the source code to your development machine:

git clone https://github.com/apache/pulsar

The following commands are assumed to be executed from the project root directory:

cd pulsar

Compile and install to local Maven repository:

./mvnw clean install -DskipTests

bin/pulsar standalone

bin/pulsar-shell